US446377A - Cigae oe cigaeette holder - Google Patents

Description

(No Modl.)

E. B. BURR.

'GIGAR 0R CIGARETTE HOLDER.

N0. 446,377. `Paden'ed Feb. 10,1891.

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EBENEZER BANTON BURR, OF LONDN, ENGLAND.

CIGAR OR CIGARETTE HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 446,377-, dated February 10, 1891.

Application filed July 5, 1890. Serial No. 357.823. (No model.)

To all whom, t may concern:

Be it known that I, EBENEZER BAN'roN BURR, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing at London, England, have invented new and useful Improvements in Cigar or Cigarette Holders, of which the following is a specification.,

This invention relates to cigar or cigarette holders composed wholly of glass or other plastic material which can be worked into the desired form or shape while warm and becomes hard and practically rigid on cooling.

The invention has for its object to provide a novel cigar or cigarette holder composed wholly ot glass and made of two separatelyformed sections, a holder-body, and a tube, the body at one extremity being permanently sealed or joined to a shouldered part of the tube at a point on the latter remote from its two ends, whereby one end portion of the tube projects longitudinally from the body to form a mouth-piece, and the opposite end portion extends longitudinally into the holderbody to provide a surrounding` nicotine-collecting chamber whereby the nicotine is excluded from the mouth of the user.

The invention also has for its object to provide a novel construct-ion of this type of inilexible holder, whereby the nicotine-collecting chambercan be readily and conveniently cleaned without the necessity of withdrawing or otherwise disturbing the tubular extension in the holder-body, as must be done to properly clean those cigar-holders which are composed of a single piece of soft rubber having one tubular end doubled or turned back into'the holder-body to provide a nicotine-collecting chamber.

The objects of my invention I accomplish i-n the manner 'and by the mea-ns hereinafter described and claimed, reference being made to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a sectional side elevation showing the holder body and tube separated prior to being permanently sealed together or connected and shaped. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of the finished cigar or cigarette holder. j

In order to enable those skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will now describe the same in detail, referring to the drawings, wherein- The numeral l indicates the hollow body of the cigar or cigarette holder,which is composed of glass blown ormolded into cylindrical form and drawn at one end 2 into tapering form to reduce its diameter and provide a contracted center oriiice 3, of considerably less size than the internal caliber ofA the cylinder part of the holder-body.

The numeral 4 indicates a glass tube blown or molded into shape and drawn from near the middle of its length to one end to form a reduced hollow extension or neck 5 and create an annular projecting collar, shoulder, or enlargement G. The hollow extension orneck is inserted lengthwise through the center oritice in the contracted tapering end of the holder-body, so that t-he annular collar or shoulder on the tubel bears squarely against the edge of the center orifice. The hollow body and the tube being warm and colisequently plastic, the tube is pressed lengthwise, thereby conforming the edge of the center orifice and the annular collar or shoulder to each other and permanently sealing them together through the medium of an ordinary blow-pipe. The external projecting end of the tube is then properly shaped by heat and pressure into the form desired for the mouthpiece '7, the construction being such that the holder when cool is inflexible and practically rigid, while one end portion projects longitudinally as the mouth-piece 7, and the opposite end portion extends longitudinally in the center of the holder-body to provide an annular chamber S for collecting the nicotine and thereby excluding the same from the mouth ot the person using the holder.

The construction permits the nicotine-col- .lecting chamber to be readily, conveniently,

and thoroughly cleaned, since free access can be had thereto from the cigar-receiving end of the holder, and there is ample space around the tube instead ot a narrow or contracted chamber, as heretofore.

The holder comprises two sections separately made; but the permanent sealing or connection of the holder-body to the tube intermediate the ends ot' the latter produces a finished article which is practically a single piece. The parts are preferably made of transparent glass,whereby the interior is visible, while glass is readily cleaned; but I may ICO employ other plastic materialsuch as nitro; cellulose or otherpyroxyline compounds,-l Which cnn be properly Worked While in a Warm condition and set or harden on cooling.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is- A cigar or cigarette holder consisting of a hollow holder-body having a contracted extremity, and a tube permanently joined intermediate its ends to the contracted extremity of the holder-*body and having one

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